In this episode, CJ revisits DHP Episode 34, &#8220;The Iron Law of Oligarchy,&#8221; from 2014, in preparation for an upcoming mini-series on oligarchy & CJ&#8217;s argument that modern democracy is just oligarchy with extra steps.
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<li>A little bit about German sociologist Robert Michels, who first described this law</li>
<li>The Iron Law of Oligarchy as described by Michels in his early-20th century book Political Parties</li>
<li>The Iron Law of Oligarchy in other contexts</li>
<li>Some noteworthy exceptions to the Iron Law that various scholars have found, including the International Typographical Union, the New Left student movement of the 1960s, ancient Athens, and Wikipedia</li>
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